Posted by
flagwaver on Friday, October 26, 2007 11:42:32 PM
Everyone knows that the Civil Rights Establishment...The Right Reverends Jackson & Sharpton, Julian Bond & the NAACP, and the voices of Belafonte, Glover, & Gregory...are totally in bed with the mainstream (liberal) media. They come out like vultures after carrion whenever there is a story with any hint of racial bias to it, and the media attack dogs go after anyone that can be destroyed by their poison pens. They hold themselves out as the clarion of racial justice, and are quick to pounce when they see any evidence of injustice anywhere...so much so that Rush Limbaugh has renamed Al and Jesse "The Justice Brothers"!
There was a hurricane of controversy over the "injustices" in Jena, La. recently with massive protests held in the small town, and a media frenzy that generally painted every white person in the town as a night rider, and every black person in town as a cowering victim of the town's pervasive racism. That was the way the story was reported, and we all heard about how the young men in question were "victims" of a racist justice system and how the poor souls were being railroaded. You know, "Free the Jena 6" and all that jazz. Now, while there is some truth to the claims that the D.A. may have gone overboard on the charges, there can be no doubt that the young men involved in the six-on-one assault deserved some punishment. And now, sportswriter Jason Whitlock has done the type of reporting that should have been done and exposed how the case in Jena was mythologized.
But this is not about Jena, it is about how a real victim of the system, who needed the voices that were raised to defend a group of criminals in Jena to defend him sat in jail, while the Civil Rights Establishment let him languish there. They could not come to his aid, because his story was not the news of the day...it was no longer a part of the news cycle. No, this young man would have to wait and get things done on his own, without have 20,000 people march to protest his incarceration.
Genarlow Wilson is free today, after serving 2 years of a 10 year sentence for having oral sex with an underage female. He is free because the Supreme Court of the state of Georgia, in admittedly an act of activism, looked at his sentence and decided that it was the very definition of "cruel and usual punishment".He is not free because of the pressure brought to bear on the state by Julian Bond, "The Justice Brothers", the NAACP, or Danny Glover. He is free because he had a lawyer that was truly his advocate and fought for him until he was freed. Now, that is not to say that "The Justice Brothers" totally abandoned him, because Big Al did drop by...seemingly on his way to the Jena protests. But make no mistake, the Civil Rights Establishment failed this young man, and their media minions forgot about him and his struggle.
And where was the conservative press? There were reams written about the jeopardy that the Duke 3 were placed in by an overzealous prosecutor, but not one word about Genarlow Wilson. This young man lived the worst case scenario envisioned by those who were crushing Mike Nifong on a daily basis, yet not one bit of ink was spilled to defend or advocate for him. He was locked up by a prosecutor who tried him knowing that a conviction carried a 10 year sentence, and who seemed to take pleasure in the fact that he held the key to Wilson's possible freedom...all the kid had to do was humble himself before the prosecutor and he might...might...have a shot at freedom. Isn't this the very type of situation that had us all screaming for Mike Nifong's head on a platter?
So was everyone while Genarlow Wilson sat in prison? Where were the protests? Where were the media stories? Where were the indignant columns...although I can foresee an Ann Coulter column calling for him to be returned to prison, since Ann doesn't think anyone outside of Scooter Libby can be wrongfully prosecuted or convicted, but I digress...from the vanguards of justice on the right?
It seems that there was a lot of failure to go around on this story, but things worked out for Mr. Wilson in the end.
No thanks to the usual suspects.